CEOs, CFOs and COOs saw increases in total cash compensation across different sizes and types of hospitals and health systems from 2016 to 2017, with the highest median compensation increases among COOs of independent health systems, according to a SullivanCotter report.

Average hourly earnings in the U.S. were 2.9 percent higher in January than a year earlier, but pay has been slow to move despite job growth for several reasons, The New York Times reports.

U.S. wages rose at their fastest pace in eight years and the nation added 200,000 jobs in January, including 21,000 hires in healthcare businesses, according to a CNNMoney report.

As public companies become required to disclose the pay ratio of their CEOs and median employees for the first time this year, Equilar conducted an anonymous survey of 356 public companies to identify the CEO pay ratio they plan to report in their 2018 proxy statements.

A top Rhode Island senator is proposing stricter rules for hospital executive pay out of concern that Providence, R.I.-based Care New England's leaders could eventually get a golden parachute as the health system moves to merge with Boston-based Partners HealthCare, according to a WPRI report.

Massachusetts launched the state's first salary negotiation workshops to help women negotiate better pay, according to a WBUR report.

Pay-for-performance programs can harm physicians and patients, most notably when recognizing that physician skill is not the only factor that determines care quality, argue Kip Sullivan, member of the Health Care for All Minnesota Policy Advisory Committee and Stephen Soumerai, professor of population medicine at Boston-based Harvard Medical School, in a STAT op-ed.

Several major U.S. companies will not ask prospective employees about their salary history at offices nationwide after their home state or city banned the question to encourage pay equity between male and female applicants, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.

A growing number of U.S. states and cities are banning employers from asking applicants about their salary history to encourage pay equity between male and female employees, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.

As CEO incentive pay packages bring attention to transparency issues in executive compensation, a group of directors and chief risk officers from The Directors and Chief Risk Officers Group published a set of guiding principles for compensation committees around the governance of risk related to pay and performance.

Women earn approximately 80 cents for every dollar men make, frequently referred to as the gender pay gap, but the difference in pay is often discussed under terms with other definitions, CNNMoney reports.

Rocky Mount, N.C.-based Nash UNC Health Care plans to raise compensation for nurses within the next month to keep them from leaving for higher-paying jobs in different counties, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram.

As corporations consider how government tax cuts are affecting employees and business investments, economists speculate whether the these cuts are the reason why companies are announcing bonuses and raises, NBC News reports.

As more U.S. states and cities become forced to follow a law that bans employers from asking job candidates about prior salary, Amazon voluntarily pledged to ban the salary question, a policy that could potentially hurt female candidates, according to a Quartz report.

CEOs significantly outpace the average American's pay rate, particularly when examining those leading the top 350 U.S. companies, who earned $15.6 million on average in 2016, according to a CNBC report.

Public U.S. companies will be required to compare their CEO's compensation to the median pay of all employees beginning this year, leaving company boards to speculate whether these disclosures may rein in CEO pay, according to an analysis in The Washington Post.

 A rule approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission will require public U.S. companies to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and employees for the first time, leaving many company executives worried about how the disclosure will affect their company's operation, according to a Bloomberg report.

CEOs from the top five global fashion brands only have to work four days to make what a Bangladeshi garment worker will make in a lifetime, according to a report from campaigning group Oxfam International.

Twenty-three percent of full-time employees in the U.S. do not receive any benefits from their employer, such as health insurance, retirement savings plan or paid vacation, according to a recent Clutch survey.

Healthcare-specific jobs had the first and second highest median base annual salaries on LinkedIn's list of the 20 most promising jobs in 2018.